Author of The Vedic People (Orient BlackSwan), English Education in India, Sanskrit & British Empire, Science and the British Empire (Routledge) and Astronomy in India (INSA)
papers, lecture texts, book reviews, press reports , etc., mostly on science and education policy , history of science, ancient history
Rajesh Kochhar President IAU Commission 41: History of Astronomy International Astronomical Union was formed after the First World War although it became truly international only after the Second World War.…
Rajesh Kochhar Current Science, Vol 107, No. 7, 10 October 2014, pp 1194-2000 Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, is an internationally recognized scientific research centre. How, soon after the founder C.…
This essay was written in November 2013 and published ( along with some supplementary eye-catching material) in Power Politics , December 2013 issue: http://www.powerpolitics.in/Issues/December2013/page31.php Rajesh Kochhar On 5…
Slides of a colloquium give at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, 28-Aug-2014 When and where was Rigveda composed? How is it related to thee vast Harappan archaeological tradition.…
Rajesh Kochhar See http://sip.sagepub.com/content/1/1/95
Rajesh Kochhar Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu ( 19 Aug. 1927-10 Aug. 1982) can truly be called the modernizer of optical astronomy in India. He came of age at a time…
Instructional School for Lecturers in Numerical Analysis (Sponsored by National Board for Higher Mathematics) Mathematics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh OPENING REMARKS 9 June 2014 Rajesh Kochhar [email protected] Honorary Professor, Mathematics…